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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

A PHILADELPHIA company has just
completed four magnificent sleeping
cars that are to be drawn by horses.
The line is situated in the heart of the
Argentine Republic, and the fact that
horses provide the motive power is due
to the great scarcity of coal and the
cheSpness and abundance of horse
flesh. Time seems to be left out of
consideration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

RUSSIA has decreed that all mer-
chants in Posen having commercial in
tercourse beyond the Russian frontier
must pay the taxes of the Russian mer-
chants guild and obtain Russian
trade license. German newspapers are
indignant, claiming that it is crush
ing blow to home industries.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

IT is explained by an Eastern writer
that 1.-The poor quality of gum shoes
are made by grinding up old rubbers
and mixing only tri1e of crude
gum" He says, further, that zone
manufacturer last year ground up ten
thousand tons of old rubber shoes to
make new ones. They pay three to
1ouINents per pound for them.n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

THE fact that an American syndi-
cate, with capital stock of $26,
600, has obtained the exclusive right
to operate telephones in China for the
next thirty years would seem to indi-
cate that American enterprise is not
going to stop at the Pacific, but will
step right over into Asia when the
time is ripe for it, and start on a Sec
ond tour around the globe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

JAMES WooD, an Irishman, who died
in New York recently, leaving $4,000
GOO OF property, began lie in this
country as tie owner of dirt. cart.
lie struck "paying dirt" in Harlem
real estate and other things.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20
Mr.. Gladstone Invited to Americl by Pres
fdent Fitzgerald.

LINCOLN, Neb., May 1s-President Fitz-
gerald of the Irish National League in
America has sent this dispatch to MIR.
Gladstone:
Learning from London cable dispatches
that there is possibility of your visiting Amer
lea during the coming autumn hasten, as
president OF the Irish National League of
America, to tender you the respectful and cor
dial hospitality of that body with the warm
hearted greeting OF $4,000, 300 Instantaneous,
and as an American citizen to assure you of
such welcome from the great freedom-loving
people of this land as has never before been ae-
corded to any visitor to our shores
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has issued in
structions for the rigid enforcement of
the law which forbids the slaughtering
OF any fur-bearing animal within the
llnlrs OF Alaska or the waters thereof,
except as specifically authorized.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

DUBUQUE, Ia, May 13-Almost the en-
tire bushes part of Earlville, town Of
1000 inhabitants, thirty seven miles west
of Dubuque, was wiped out by fire
Wednesday night. The fire spread so rap
idly that almost nothing could be saved.
Twenty business houses, four dwellings,
one church and several barns were burned.
Only two elevators, hardware store, a
bank and the Masonic building were saved
in the business part of the town. Loss,
S15O 900: insurance. SO 41h
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

PRESIDENT ARTHUR's fishing outfit
is said to have been worth S., 600, and
Bangor, Me-, supports an angler whose
rig cost $4,000. 1t is the boy with
q bent pin and piece of cotton Irvine,
however, who gets the most fun out of
his fshinng tackle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

III has been settled at last that
George Washington wore at his inau-
guration dark brown suit made at
the first wooden mill ever established
in America. His white silk stockings
were also of home manufacture.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20
,ranning.s New speculative scheme.

NEW YORK, May 1S.-An organization is
being effected among certain capitalists in
this city to trade in silver bullion certifi-
Gates as grain and cotton are now dealt in.
The head center of this organization is to
be the Western National Bank of which
ex-Secretary Manning and ex-Treasurer
Jordan are the founders. Mr.. Manning
and his associates have planned to make
New York the chief seat of the silver bull
ion trade, and thus to transfer the control
of the silver market from London to New
York
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

A MAN at Seabrook, N. H., recently
asked the selectmen to pay him two
dollars for hens killed by a dog, but
they have decided that a hen is not an
animal, and hence that the dog law
doe rot qpply.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

DANIEL HAND, of Guilford, Conn,
who recently received $500, 900 from
Banker Williams, of Charleston, in
payment of unsecured debts contracted
many years ago, has given $25, to
the Yale Divinity School.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

BEAN-sHQCTERs in the hands of boys
have caused the loss of so much win
dow glass in Pittsburgh as to call for
an order from the police authorities
prohibiting their sale.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

A HA1L-sToRM the other day at St.
Paul broke eighty-one lights of glass in
the roof of the Battle of Gettysburg
panorama, exposing the painting TO
the rain.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20
The gamut of theft is thus climbed
by the Washington Critic.
AT the recent Colonial conference il

AT the recent Colonial conference in
London some striking facts were put
forward by Mr. Fender, chairman of
'he Eastern Telegraph Company, as to
the debt which commerce owes to sci
enee' Twenty years ago there were
scarcely 1000 miles of submarine Ca
bles; now there are 107, miles, of
which all but 1000 are under British
control (the total cost being $1S5, 00O,-
Ooo)' and ''eables can at the present
time be laid with comparatively little
risk OF breakage, and with an almost
certainty of efficient repair" The total
lines are estimated at 1880, 900 miles.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

1T is reported that gang of counter
letters is following up the races this
year and engaged in circulating spu-
rioug silver coin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
mas become associated in the executive
management of fashionable boarding
school in New FORK City.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsy lvania,
who lost leg in the war; deyotes his
entire pension of $40 month to char
ifyy
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

CIcILY is the chief source of mama;
in that country the trees are planted
in plantations, and when eight years
old they begin to yield. Cuts two inch
Is long are made in the bark, cutting
through tc the wood. One cut is made
daily, beginning near the bottom of
the trunk, with each succeeding cut
about an inch above. The thick juice
eNudes from the cuts and hardens on
the bark into white, spongy flakes,
viii III when hard enough, are removed
and dried still further before packed
for commerce. 1t consists Of sugar
called mantle, and has mild properties.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the st. Peters
burg NoUoe Treaaya gives some curious
details with regard to the periodical
and daily press in Bulgaria. A jour
nal, he says, is published in almost
every town and village, only all the
papers contain the same matter, and
differ only in their titles. Before the
proclamation of the Principality there
were forty-eight Bulgarian gazettes;
since the liberation the number has
risen to eighty-fve, not including $50
reviews which have appeared in the
course of this century, the majority
OF which have now totally disappeared.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

Xenia, Ind, comes to the front with a
fine flow of natural gas, struck at depth
of $50 feet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

Rev. John Pente, of jamestown, N.
T., recently filed marriage certif-
cate, in which the husbands age was
given as thirteen. Investigation
showed that the figures had been
transposed, and ought to have been
thirty-one.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

New York contains 26,500 acres,
-, 100 of which are on the island of
Manhattan. This is about All square
miles. Brooklyn covers IS, 337 acres,
about % square miles.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

Il walked the floor all night with
the toothache," said he. To which his
unfeeling listener said: ''You didn' t ex-
pect to walk the ceiling with it, did
your Otaga Witness.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

An advertisement in Boston
paper states that an active servant is
wanted. who must be plain cook
and able to dress little boy five years
old"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-20

1t sounds little inconsistent for
her to call it '.duck of a bonnet and
yet seem so terribly alarmed over the
possibility of its getting wet,-PhalG-
deLphiG Call.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
THREE CHILDREN BURNED
A TERRIBLE OCCURRENCE ON AN
ARKANSAS PLANTATION.
T. L. divers Home in Faulkner County
Destroyed by Fire and His Grand.
Children, Who Had Been Left Alone,
Perish In the Flames.

Special Dispatch to the Appeal.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Nov. Wv. N. Lee,
farmer living in East Fork township,
Faulker county, related TO your correspond
ent today q very terrible occurrence that
happened on his farm yesterday. I. l.. Oil
YER very old man, who is one Of his ten
ants, went to the cotton field yesterday
morning to work, and, in a short
time, his wife went out 10 help
him, leaving alone in the house three of their
little grandchildren. The field was some
distance from the house. and there was a
strip of heavy land intervening. About 10
o'clock the old man and his wife saw
cloud of smoke ascending in the
| direction Of their house, and, throwing
down their pick sacks they ran with all
possible speed but when they arrived at an
opening where they could see, the entire
building was wrapped in flames, and
before they could reach the scene
the top had fallen in The three little
| children were nowhere 10 be seen, and the
| grief-stIiCkcn grandparents wrung their
| hands IN anguish and Voc, knowing they
had persisted in the flames. When the fire
three little grandchildren were found closely
| together, where their grandmother's room
| had once stood, and the aged and bent old
people turned their feeble footsteps away
from all that was light and life to them.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

People In New Mexico and Arizona are
clamoring for better mail service.
Julius Dexter has been elected president
Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton a Dayton rail-
road. D.
The total registration Of voters in Cincin-
natl this year is 30,3ji, an increase Of 2,0l3
over last year. =
Pete Mccartney, the countcrfcitcr, has
been released by United States Judge Allen
ON his own recOgniZance.
Local assembly 1907, knights OF Labor OF
which Anarchist Parsons was member, has
withdrawn from the order.
The National dairy convention opened at
Manchester, Ia, Yesterday. The only event
was the Governors address Of wclcomc.
The Presbyterian synod Of Minnesota has
asked q revocation Of the order forbidding
the instruction Of Indian youths in their own
language.
Prof Egbcrt smyth Of Andover, has up.
pcalcd 20 the courts from the decision OF the
board Of visitors removing him from his
profcsorship.
Dr. Gillespie, Of East Dcs Moincs, Ia, has
been arrested for gruyc-robbing, aud ship
ping the dead body Of Katie Dunn, VI Chan
ton, 10 Chicago.
President Tcvis, Of the Wclls-Fargo ex.
press does not think that express companies
not In partnership with railroads come under
the operation OF the Interstate commerce
law
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
cholera and Not Measles.

NEw York, Nov lit seems 10 BE- very
evident judging frbm the latest develop.
mcnis In the case Of the cholera stricken IN.
ticnts nj quarantine that the health officer
aud the commissioners 81 quarantine are not
keeping the public informed ~ the true
state Of affairs ut the station. 4 sense oi
mystery and conccnlmCnt seems 10 pcryadc
every movement Of the cUmmissio and
DR.. smith
Monday night pr Smith sent up a bul-
lctin, announcing that hll of thc Alc-in sur.
viyors were well. with the exception ct twn
or three, who were suffering from intestinal
cnturrh. The bulletin also stated that the
doctor had removed Antunctia Dcmlrci, aged
two years. and PCdru Marco. aged twelve
years, both suffering from measles, from the
Britannia Today q reporter was Informed
that these were, IN very truth, eases III
cholera; that they bad died late on Monday
night were buried this buried this morning.
A visit was made 10 the lookout station az
quarantine, Ia ascertain " the rumor was
true. An assistant Of DR.. Smiths was IN
charge. and, after some hesitation aud beat.
ing about admitted that IL was. Then lac
added. II may n well tell YOU that We have
no cases Of measles down here. We have
nothing but cholera"
The reporter next went 10 the commission.
cr's Office. No one thcrc knew anything
about the case. DR.. Smiths bulletin for 10.
day was on the desk There was nothing I'm
Il about the two patients who had died aud
were buried. hut the bulletin did state that
five more eases Of measles had been removed
from the britannia 10 the hospital.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Session OF the American Association
Progress OF the Cause.

PHIADEtPInA, Pa, Nov 1.-The second
days session Of the American womans sui
irngc association was opened THIS evening
with prayer by DR. Mary +. Thomas, OF
Indiana.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, Of Massachusetts,, and
Mrs. Adelaide A. Chailin, OF Vermont re,
ported that bills for municipal suffrage had
made progress in their legislatures, but had
Jailed 10 be enacted into laws.
Mrs. DIR. Thomas, of Indiana, gave some
encouraging information, and after reading
her report delivered forciblc address, In
which she concluded by counselling the I'D
yocates Of the glorious reform TO be patient
and they would surely succeed.
AT the afternoon session resolutions were
presented and laid over declaring that gov
eminent the best which is founded on equal
male and female suffrage; that, therefore,
this association Is nOn-partisan, and should
support the candidates Of the polit-
zeal party who favor woman suffrage
that, rs u first step, municipal suffrage
should be demanded in every State; and that
as n second step an appeal be made for
privilege OF voting for presidential electors.
IL continues: "We congratulate the Lcgis-
ature Of Kansas upon its honorable record
in extending full municipal suffrage
last March TO the women of that
State, and the 10000 women Of Kansas
crnments were elected in every municipality.
We hail the National Womans Christian
temperance union rs AN efficient ally Of the
woman's suffrage government; we recognize
the woman suffrage resolutions Of the
knights Of Labor the land and labor organi-
cations, the new -Prohibtionists--an
other political parties rs evidence ola growing
public sentiment in favor Of the equal rights
Of woman; We rejoice that two-thirds OF the
northern senators OF the Congress Of the
United States voted last winter for n six
tccnth amendment prohibiting political
distinctions ON account Of sex; we
observe an increasing fricndlncss in
the attitude Of the press and pulpit, and the
fact that near 900 newspapers now publish
n weekly column in the interest Of woman
suffrage; we are encouraged by more general
discussion aud more favorable votes OF State
legislatures than ever bcforc-all indicating
n sure and steady progress toward the com
plctc cniunchscmeut Of women"
The committee ON n plan Of work sub.
mittcd report, upon which there was Q
lengthy discussion. This was followed 10y
addresses by DIR. Marion Thomas, Of Indiana
Mrs. Hazard, OF Missouri, aud others.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
GORDON IN OHIO.
He Has No Comment to Make on Con
Jackson's Speech.

JuChSOu . opetru'
CLEVELAND, o., Nov 1.-uvv. Gordon. OF
Georgia, addressed large eu renee at Music
hall tonight. AT the end OF his speech he
offered Go answer any question that might be
asked him.
what have You 10 say Of Gen. Jackson's
speech at Macony inquired n man in the
audience.
Nothing" said Gov. Gordon.
"Do you consider il trcasonableY' asked
the man.
~ have nothing TO say" was the Gov
crnor's reply.
Gen. q. W. Morgan. " Mount Vernon in.
troduccd the Governor. Gen. Morgan closed
his culogy by referring to the stars and
stripes, saying that IL Wa the only flag that
could hcnceiorth wave over north and
south. Just then Gov. Gordon walked rap
idly to where Gen. Morgan was standing
aud kissed him directly ~ the mouth.
II have not come 10 Ohio To discuss local
ISSUES" said the Governor, when he began
his speech ~ am profoundly Impressed
with the conviction that the sooner the bar
rcrs that divide Ohio and Georgia are broken
down the sooner II will hc for your interests
and for men. ! shall not dcta'n Won by any
defense OF myself nor shall ! attempt q
reply To tho unwrrrantcl. ungmcious and
ungcntlcmanly attacks upon my character
Al AppomatoN. on the night oi thc nh Of
April when the air was ,iill muriy wilh tho
smoke Of War, heiurr We had bccn parocd I
sat on my horse, aud gathering alpuigl ne
the remnants of my lltCCl Amy, began
Ia preach the reunion Of uiy country Lciy
any man 10 put ilg.g upon one w.gi
which has escaped my LIS since
tkat time inconsistent with that
declaration. God knows we have sui.
i5rcd enough ly war We do not want
amy more 81 H. but have sometimes thought
that | would be willing Ia see one more war
that we might march under the stars and
stripes shoulder 10 shoulder against COM
mon foe. II COULD call tic lishlAihg down
tonight would blast forever this horrible
feeling Of sectional hate
Gov Gordon then read an extract from n
Republican paper saying that his hands were
still red with the blood II innocent negroes.
lie then walked Ia the edge 81 the platform
aud asked reporters of Republican papers II
they saw any blood ON his hands.
lie paid n high tribute ~ the faith
fulncss of the blacks in the south. saying
that they had remained behind during the
rebellion and had protected tie wives and
daughters Of their masters. The greater part
Of the speech was devoted 10 answering tho
attacks made upon him by the Leader. The
Governor will remain here until tomorrow
night, when he Will leave for Georgia
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02

lessons in this regard, on the South
Carolina coast especially. No one can
read OF Gen. Bcauregard's defense of
Charleston and tho neghborng coast, as
FAR down almost as Savannah, without re-
alizing that while permanent notifications
are of great service, il is after all upon
the defensive works constructed 10 meet
the eNigencies created by skilliul and
enterprising enemy that people, MS
well asarmies, must rely Gen Bcaurcgard,
with unsurpassed ability ,chcckmated every
movement Of the only less able engineers
opposed TO him. Fortified places have
proven in these days only 80 many grave
yards Tor troops. The civil war the
Franco-Prussian and the Russo Turkish
war proved this. The fall Of Nicksburg,
OF Metz and Paris and OF pleyna arc eases
in point, and we might instance Scbasiopol,
defended so heroically. The government
ought 70 go slow on Notifications and con
tinuo the experiments ut the torpedo sta
ton ut Newport, and build twenty-five or
more such ships as the Atlanta, trying for
greater speed with each succeeding ship
A swift sailer, with one or four guns
throwing the most powerful proicctilcs,
is in the estimation of marine cx-
peris moro dangerous enemy than Il slug
gish iron clad like the English Thundcror,
which could be quickly disposed of by a
torpedo. Our coast dcicnsc should consist
of floating batteries that win prevent IN
enemy from even getting within sight OF
our shores
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-02
"JIm. th. Pcnman.-

A rare dramatic treat Is In store for Mem.
phis theaiergocrs next week. when the cclc-
bra,cd New York Madison Square thcatcr
attraction, Jim. the rcnman,' will be pre-
,cntcd NJ the thcatcr by Mr. Palmcr's com
pany, the majority Of whom were In the
original east The story Is one Of surprising
interest and j. developed by degrees and
with telling effect by the author Tho plot
hinges upon the marvellous pcnmauship II
James Bnlst1n, who Is chief ui a gang OF sue.
ccs,ful furgcrs, aud wealthy and bcnCyo.
lent gentleman with fine family nc one and
the same time His great skill In forging
names was used in gaining his wife, and at
the opening oi the play the lover, from
whom he had stolen her returns from
America on the track oi fouur who had
drawn all his funds out Of an American
bank. A confederate of the fongcr. Baron
fairfield, and detective, who Il known In
society ~ q foppish captain. complete the
list IT persons IN the story proper This N,
however, accomplished 10y very pretty love
episode between Ralsious daughter and an
English nohlcmnn. There Is not scene
throughout the play That does not hold the
audience with mpi attention. Above every
thing else, the methods used arc uf the most
natuml kind, and Therefore the most effect
i've The sale ~ seats Tor this engagement
will open az Wiizmann's next Friday morn.
ing. aud II Is expected that the sales for the
week will be 1T immense proportions.